>I think AI can be a really effective teacher if you're truly motivated to learn
This! I use simple freebie gemini queries and actually read the code produced because thats the actual intent of me asking gemini a question.
Now that doesn't mean that I mind folks running these vibe coding agents and I bet in the hands of an invested individual aware of risks, some percent of those agents could be tests on results, "devils advocates" type things, like "search for security problems in this code", "break into this system" etc, don't get me wrong I haven't ever actually used agents so my assumptions of what they can do are probably pretty naive lol but theres no denying that neural networks aren't going anywhere.
My biggest problem with this seem to be slanted more toward the messed up economics and politics of it all which is really just the usual clueless people encountering and using tech from the clued people with a dash of actually psychopathy tossed in for that extra spicy spicy hit. Witness my favorite bad guys suggesting an actual ban on states issuing regulations regarding AI, and then when I see the money being borrowed and the ramifications of budgets required to repay them etc and the fraud, social media AI slop and actual deceptive possiblities that are most certainly being used, well its just all so tiresome
no, the word "fabricated" means a deliberate action which could quite possibly have negative connotations for the fabricator, "hallucinated" is something more, its fabrication laundered through an llm.
this is what I've been using freebie gemini chat for mostly, example code, like reminding me of c stdlib stuff, javascript, a bit of web server stuff here and there. I think it would be fun to give googles agent or cli stuff a spin but when I read up here and there about antigravity, I'm reading that people are getting their accounts shutdown for stuff I would have thought was ok, even if they paid for it (well actually as usual the actual reasons for accounts getting zapped remain unknown as is today's trend for cloud accounts).
I'm too poor for local llms, I think there might be a 2 or 4gb graphics card in one of my junk pcs but thats about it lol
"Boris Cherny" seems pretty good at this enshittification stuff. Think about it, normal coders would consider having a config like show details or don't, you know, a developers preference but no this guy wants you to control-o all the time, read the article its right there what this guy says:
" A GitHub issue on the subject drew a response from Boris Cherny, creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic, that "this
isn't a vibe coding feature, it's a way to simplify the UI so you can focus on what matters, diffs and bash/mcp outputs." He
suggested that developers "try it out for a few days" and said that Anthropic's own developers "appreciated the reduced noise.""
Seriously man, whatever happened to configs that you can set once. They obviously realise that people want it with the control-o but why make them do this over and over without a way to just config it, or whatever the cli does like maybe:
./clod-code -v
or something. Man I dislike these AI bros so much, there always about "your personal preferences are wrong" but you know they are lying through their smirking teeth they want you to burn tokens so the earth's inhabitability can die a few minutes earlier.
Speaking of burning tokens, they also like to waste our tokens with paragraphs of system messages for every single file read you do with Claude. Take a look at your jsonl files, search for <system-reminder>.
Thats my thought too. The chatbot bros probably feel the need to be responsive and there's probably an express lane to update a trivia file or something lol
I got your point because it seemed that you were precisely avoiding the anthropomorphizing and in fact seemed to be honing in on whats happening with the weights. The only way I can imagine these models are going to work with trick questions lies beyond word prediction or reinforcement training UNLESS reinforcement training is from a complete (as possible) world simulation including as much mechanics as possible and let these neural networks train on that.
Like for instance, think chess engines with AI, they can train themselves simply by playing many many games, the "world simulation" with those is the classic chess engine architecture but it uses the positional weights produced by the neural network, so says gemini anyways:
"ai chess engine architecture"
"Modern AI chess engines (e.g., Lc0, Stockfish) use
a hybrid architecture combining deep neural networks for positional evaluation with advanced search algorithms like Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) or alpha-beta pruning. They feature three core components: a neural network (often CNN-based) that analyzes board patterns (matrices) to evaluate positions, a search engine that explores move possibilities, and a Universal Chess Interface (UCI) for communication."
So with no model of the world to play with, I'm thinking the chatbot llms can only go with probabilities or what matches the prompt best in the crazy dimensional thing that goes on inside the neural networks. If it had access to a simple world of cars and car washes, it could run a simulation and rank it appropriately, and also could possibly infer through either simulation or training from those simulations that if you are washing a car, the operation will fail if the car is not present. I really like this car wash trick question lol
sorry, I probably needed to spell it out for you, when you buy an 18+ or 21+ age limited product, you have to physically show up for it and show your id. registering to vote is also pretty age limited. Now at least for the alcohol thing, parents I think can actually give their kids drinks and get away with it if they don't get caught heh I remember my dad gave me my first beer but you can rest assured that if I proceeded to be knocking back my brothers secret stash of 90 proof shit on the regular in front of my dad, well shit would have turned out pretty much the same as when my brother ratted me out for stealing his own hash pipe lol
oops forgot to mention, you can check the potential internet customer's id also at the time of purchasing the internet connection or obtaining a wifi login. I hope that I've clarified the similarity here and that there was actually no "Weird jump between voicing my political points online and which beer I prefer"
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